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24. Changing the development paradigm in African agricultural water management to resolve water and food challenges

Author

Vibeke Bjornlund, Henning Bjornlund, Andre F. van Rooyen, Jamie Pittock, Bjornlund, Henning, van Rooyen, Andre, Pittock, Jamie, and Bjornlund, Vibeke

Subjects
water and food availability, productivity, Sub-Saharan Africa, Research-for-development needs, Natural resource economics, Global South, profitability, Profitability index, Business, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Productivity, Water Science and Technology, Agricultural water management
Abstract

Refereed/Peer-reviewed Meeting growing demand for water and food in Africa, and other parts of the Global South, presents a significant and critical challenge over the next 50 years. This paper draws on an ongoing project in Africa to outline the research-for-development work that is urgently required to facilitate a paradigm shift in agricultural water management. Such work should lead to increased productivity and profitability of agricultural water use to allow agriculture to release some water to meet the growing needs of other sectors, while still meeting food security needs and contributing to a prosperous rural population.

Published
2021

25. Irrigators’ willingness to pay for the adoption of soil moisture monitoring tools in South-Eastern Africa

Author

Fentahun Abebe, Sarah Ann Wheeler, Henning Bjornlund, Jamie Pittock, Mario Chilundo, Andre F. van Rooyen, Alec Zuo, M. Mdemu, Abebe, Fentahun, Zuo, Alec, Wheeler, Sarah Ann, Bjornlund, Henning, van Rooyen, Andre, Pittock, Jamie, Mdemu, Makarius, and Chilundo, Mario

Subjects
Zimbabwe, Irrigation, Econometric methods, 0207 environmental engineering, 02 engineering and technology, Development, Tanzania, irrigation, hypothetical bias, Agricultural economics, Willingness to pay, 0502 economics and business, 020701 environmental engineering, Water content, Mozambique, Water Science and Technology, 2. Zero hunger, Contingent valuation, biology, 05 social sciences, biology.organism_classification, Geography, contingent valuation method, 050202 agricultural economics & policy, South eastern
Abstract

Contingent valuation is used to elicit irrigators’ willingness to pay for soil moisture tools in irrigation schemes in Africa, with various econometric methods employed to mitigate potential bias. Key results include that there is a neighbourhood effect influencing adoption, and that being located downstream and spending more on irrigation water positively and statistically significantly influenced willingness to pay for tools. The result suggests that although focusing on economic incentives and promoting farmer learning by those using the tools may promote greater adoption, there is likely to still be a need for co-investment by other bodies. Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Published
2020

26. Exploring the productivity and profitability of small-scale communal irrigation systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author

Henning Bjornlund, Jamie Pittock, Bjornlund, Henning, and Pittock, Jamie

Subjects
Irrigation, business.industry, Corporate governance, market access, 0208 environmental biotechnology, Market access, 02 engineering and technology, Development, small-scale irrigation, Agricultural economics, 020801 environmental engineering, governance, Agriculture, Scale (social sciences), Africa, Economics, water productivity, Profitability index, Agricultural productivity, business, Productivity, agriculture, Water Science and Technology
Abstract

This special issue explores the challenges associated with increasing the productivity and profitability of small-scale communal irrigation systems in a world with growing demand for food and scarc...

Published
2017

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